Immigration Arrests of noncriminals dropped by 13% under the Trump administration, compared with the overall percentage of noncriminals arrested from 2009 to 2016 under the Obama administration, according to statistics provided to the Washington Post as well and the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Mr. Johnson explains that:

Arrests of noncriminals this year are much, much lower than the peak enforcement years of the Obama administration.

As a matter of percentage, under Trump, ICE arrests of noncriminals account for 25.47% of of total arrests. (5441 out of 21,362)
In the year of 2014 in the same time period, under Obama, ICE arrests of noncriminals accounted for slightly less than .1% more, at 25.6% of total arrests (7,482 out of 29,328).

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This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been reading President Trump's executive orders. He is going to deport the noncriminal aliens who can't prove they have been here for two years in expedited removal proceedings. When the program is ready to go, noncriminal aliens will be arrested and held in mandatory detention until they can be deported, unless they can establish a credible fear of persecution, which is not likely to be as easy under the Trump Administration as it was under the Obama Administration. In the meantime, he has to do something about the immigration court backlog crises so he can deport the criminal aliens in immigration court proceedings.

I provide a more detailed explanation of this program in an article I wrote entitled, "Noncriminal immigrants facing Trump's deportation force need legalization, not lawyers." It's in today's ILW.com daily, but if you aren't seeing this in the daily, you can find it at the following link--

Matthew L. Kolken is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law – including deportation defense before Immigration Courts throughout the United States, appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) since 1997.